Articles Of Confederation Flaws

The Articles of Confederation was an ill-thought out plan that was rushed into effect to tie together a nation that wanted to distinguish itself from its parent country. Without much time to plan, flaws are bound to be present. The main problem with this document is in its name. It called for a confederation among the states. This left little to no power for a central government, and the states were almost independent countries themselves. Due to this extremely low amount of power of a central government, there was little control over legislature and organization among the economy. These problems grew until the leaders of the country convened to revise the Articles and eventually created an entirely new document due to the inefficacy of the

Congress had no power, so states had no reliance on a central power. States could obey or disobey any laws they wanted. No foreign affairs head was in place either. America was left with no diplomat and no head to their chicken. National government was forced to rely on states for militias, laws, and nearly everything. The process of making laws is a vital component of any government, and this makes that process extremely inefficient. With this constitution in place, all thirteen states have a vote.People were not represented equally by this one vote per state system. For example, residents of Virginia had one-tenth the voting power per capita than Delaware. It was also very difficult to pass laws due to the fact that nine out of the thirteen states had to agree to pass a bill or law. This required only five states to strong arm the rest of them, preventing legislation from being passed. Using this constitution, it was extremely easy to be blocked into a position of stagnation.The economy also faltered as a result of the Articles of Confederation. Due to the low central government, there was no way to regulate trade. This caused an extremely low amount of continuity from state to